Gwynn MacDonald is a New York-based freelance theatre director, script developer, and co-editor of the online journal Women in Theatre. During the Varna Summer International Theatre Festival, she spoke with Anita Angelova about her work, her connection to Bulgaria, and the performances she saw at this year’s festival. Continue reading What Struck Me Most Was the Strength of Bulgaria’s Theatre Culture
Hasibe Kalkan, Head of the Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy Department at Istanbul University, was a guest of the Showcase programme. In an interview with Anita Angelova, she shares her reflections on the festival’s performances.
Continue reading Theatre as a Way of Discovering Different Cultures
Zhaklin Dobreva talks to Ivan Dodovski from North Macedonia – Professor of Critical Theory and Comparative Literature at University American College Skopje and President of Eurodram – about his impressions of the festival programme and the performances ‘Triptych’, ‘Cries from the Underground’, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘The Fellowman’s Face’, as well as the importance of cultural exchange between different languages, stages and cultures. Continue reading Ivan Dodovski: The Diversity of Varna Summer Theatre Festival
“Why do lofty ideas fail when put into human action? For me, this is the great subject of art today,” says director Margarita Mladenova in an interview with Zhaklin Dobreva about ‘The Fellowman’s Face’, based on ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theatre Laboratory “Sfumato”, part of the Showcase programme. Continue reading Margarita Mladenova on ‘The Fellowman’s Face’: It is difficult to love the ugly face of one’s fellowman
